Riches Quotes

Riches Quote of the day

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

The Word tells us that God meets our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Begin to talk and act as though it is true!

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.

Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

I'm on the road to riches, it's just a lil traffic.

Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.